Coyote Linux Personal Firewall was a personal firewall distribution of Linux designed for the purpose of protecting a personal or educational network. In addition to being designed to have very low hardware requirements, Coyote Linux was able to provide the performance and uptime that was expected from any Linux based system. This firewall product was licensed for personal and educational use and was available free of charge.

A new version of Devil-Linux is now available: "It's time for another maintenance release of Devil-Linux. We mainly updated some sources because of vulnerabilities and fixed some minor issues. Here are the details: jail script now works fine with subdirectories; updated zlib to v1.2.1, vsftpd to v1.2.1, sagator to v20031201, pcmcia-cs to v3.2.7, lftp to v2.6.10, iANS to v2.3.63b, e1000 to v5.2.22, e100 to v2.3.33, cyrus-sasl to v2.1.17, cyrus-imapd to v2.1.16, SpamAssassin to v2.61, cvs to v1.12.4; ownership of /etc isn't changed anymore to root during boot; updated kernel mppe patch (fixes pptp problems); added kernel patch against do_brk vulnerability; fixed dhcrelay init script." See the rest of the announcement for further details. Download: devil-linux-1.0.3-i486.tar.bz2 (94.0MB) or devil-linux-1.0.3-i686-SMP.tar.bz2 (94.4MB).

Devil-Linux is a CD-based Linux distribution for firewalls and routers. The goal of Devil-Linux is to have a small, customizable and secure (what is secure on the Internet?) Linux. The future of Devil-Linux will go far beyond an ordinary router, we will provide a lot of other services, but the distribution will still be easy and fast to maintain.

Heiko Zuecker has announced the release of Devil-Linux 1.8.0, a major update of the project's independently-developed distribution that runs directly from the live CD and is designed primarily for server, firewall and router deployments: "Devil-Linux 1.8.0 has been released. This is a major overhaul of Devil-Linux. Most programs and libraries have been updated and the unmaintained ones have been removed. The main file system has been switched to Squashfs, to further reduce the ISO image size." Here is the brief release announcement. Some of the more interesting items from the changelog include: "Build system - Python now compiles all available modules from src/python-modules; added haveged and haproxy; added Google Authenticator for PAM; added Dovecot Pigeonhole; mounting of bootcd.iso from another storage devices is not supported any more, use bootcd.squash; added a new init script post_init.local to help with some initializations scripts that need to run after everything else is up; replace Bacula with Bareos, manual migration is necessary; removed Linux-HA and moved to Corosync 2.x with Pacemaker...." Download (checksums are included within the compressed files): devil-linux-1.8.0-x86_64.tar.xz (325MB), devil-linux-1.8.0-x86_64-server.tar.xz (324MB), devil-linux-1.8.0-i686.tar.xz (322MB), devil-linux-1.8.0-i686-server.tar.xz (316MB).

Heiko Zuecker has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Devil-Linux 1.8.0, an upcoming major update of the CD-based distribution designed for servers, firewalls and routers: "Devil-Linux 1.8.0-rc1 has been released. This is a major overhaul of Devil-Linux. Most programs and libraries have been updated and unmaintained ones have been removed. The main file system has been switched to Squashfs, to further reduce the ISO image size. What's new: added Google Authenticator for PAM; dded Dovecot Pigeonhole; Squashfs is now the main file system with lz4-hc compression; mounting of bootcd.iso from another storage devices is not supported any more, use bootcd.squash; added a new init script to help with some initialization scripts that need to run after everything else is up; replace Bacula with Bareos...." See the release announcement and changelog for more details. Download the compressed ISO images from SourceForge (checksums are included in the compressed files): devil-linux-1.8.0-rc1-i686.tar.xz (320MB), devil-linux-1.8.0-rc1-i686-server.tar.xz (314MB), devil-linux-1.8.0-rc1-x86_64.tar.xz (323MB), devil-linux-1.8.0-rc1-x86_64-server.tar.xz (322MB).

Heiko Zuecker has announced the release of Devil-Linux 1.6.0, a specialist live distribution for firewalls, routers and servers which boots and runs completely from a CD-ROM or a USB Flash drive: "Hello Devil-Linux community. It has finally happened: Devil-Linux 1.6 has been released. This new release brings many new features, lots of improvements, many software updates, Linux kernel 3.2, and a 64-bit edition." Some of the major package updates include LVM 2.02.95, DHCP 4.2.3-P2, OpenLDAP 2.4.30, Squid 3.1.19, Webmin 1.580, Dovecot 2.1.3, MySQL 5.5.21, Samba 3.6.3, Apache HTTPD server 2.2.22, PHP 5.3.10.... See the brief release announcement and consult the comprehensive changelog for more information. Download the compressed ISO images from SourceForge (checksums are included in the files): devil-linux-1.6.0-i686.tar.bz2 (397MB), devil-linux-1.6.0-i686-server.tar.bz2 (380MB), devil-linux-1.6.0-x86_64.tar.bz2 (418MB), devil-linux-1.6.0-x86_64-server.tar.bz2 (404MB).

Heiko Zuerker has announced the release of Devil-Linux 1.2.15, a live firewall and server distribution. "Devil-Linux 1.2.15 is available for download. The changes include lots of program and security updates. See the changelog for details." Among the changes are: ImageMagick can now correctly identify file types again; added arping tool; added dev86 to build environment; added hotfix to allow ntop links against net-snmp; added missing LSI fusion SCSI drivers to initial ramdisk; corrected DHCP compile; corrected motion compile; downgraded iptables to 1.3.7 (due to missing extensions, i.e. connlimit, time and others); increased compatibility of strongSwan for Windows and Cisco clients. Read the rather brief release announcement and the changelog for more information. Download (MD5): devil-linux-1.2.15-i486.tar.bz2 (206MB), devil-linux-1.2.15-i586-SMP.tar.bz2 (207MB), devil-linux-1.2.15-i686-SMP-server.tar.bz2 (210MB).

Bruce Smith has announced the release of Devil-Linux 1.2.12, a new version of the project's live CD firewall and server distribution: "Devil-Linux 1.2.12 is available for download. Change highlights: Kernel 2.4.34, security fixes, many package updates, new Perl modules, a few new packages, and more." Among the many package updates, Postfix has been upgraded to version 2.3.6, OpenSSH to 4.5p1, MySQL to 4.1.22, Shorewall to 3.2.7, BIND to 9.3.3 and DHCP to 3.0.5, while a missing LDAP support has been added to the Squid proxy server. Please read the release announcement and changelog for further information. Download the three available editions from here: devil-linux-1.2.12-i486.tar.bz2 (192MB), devil-linux-1.2.12-i586-SMP.tar.bz2 (193MB), devil-linux-1.2.12-i686-SMP-server.tar.bz2 (191MB).